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It’s 15 years later now and I’m pro-choice, I don’t want kids of my own, I’ve been married and divorced and am now engaged, the majority of my friends are some form of queer as well as myself, and I am on the ace spectrum.

We change as people as we grow up. It happens. We get exposed to new things, learn new ways of thinking, see other sides to things.

Which is one of the reasons Tumblr’s toxic black/white nonsense is very infuriating.

Because it’s a bunch of kids who haven’t learned yet that shit’s gonna change trying to make absolutes out of every situation. They’re always out to find the bad guy.

Like there’s a very reverse Scooby Doo kind of feeling like “Oh look, let’s take the mask off your fave artist/actor/etc and reveal that they are the monster. Look how problematic!!!” and for small infractions too.

I dunno man. Life’s going to change for you, people are going to change around you, and YOU are going to change as you grow. Who you are right now is not who you are going to be at 30.

I mean, lord, can you imaging parenting kids with the same attitude tumblr has? You kid screws up once and you’re flipping shit on them and kicking them out of the house?

It’s not good behavior, always looking for the bad in things, always looking for a monster. You can take a stand in other ways against bad shit in the world and it doesn’t have to mean harassing people. Give to charities, promote things like help hotlines, volunteer places, take classes on how to counsel people, there’s so many good ways to help. Badgering people, sending death threats, being a dick? Those aren’t helping.

Ya’ll will change as you grow and you gotta acknowledge that you change and so do others and that change isn’t instant and that some things never 100% change and that’s okay. The world is like that. There’s stuff we’ll never eradicate 100%. It sucks. I’d love to prevent some shit from ever happening ever but that’s not how life is. So instead we do what we can while we’re here to help others.

when i let my mind unravel, when i step deeper into the abyss, in times of such terrors, I stand gutsy knowing you would be there to assist me.

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝟽, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶 -𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹